Tony Pitts
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Biography: Tony Pitts is an actor, screenwriter and playwright. Born in Sheffield, Pitts originally intended to become a physician but ended up working as a car mechanic in his early career. During his time at Stannington College, Sheffield Barry Hines paid a visit looking for extras for his upcoming drama Looks and Smiles. Pitts was cast and soon upgraded to a bigger role in the production. He decided to follow his ambition to become an actor in 1983, landing the role of Archie Brooks in the long running ITV soap Emmerdale. He remained in the show for a total of ten years, when the character was killed off in the infamous plane crash episode of 30th December 1993. Since then, Pitts has worked in TV, film, radio and theatre including War Horse, Lilyhammer and Peaky Blinders. In 2018, Pitts wrote, produced and starred in the film Funny Cow - the story of a female stand up comedian (played by his friend Maxine Peake) on the northern club circuit in the 1970s. In 2021, Pitts and actress Katherine Kelly set up the production company Make Me Films. They released their first short, Let Her Go, in 2022. It was written by Pitts and marked his directorial debut. He is also the host, alongside John Bishop, of the podcast Three Little Words.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Birthday: October 10, 1962
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Gender: Male
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When the Lights Went Out
Overview: Yorkshire, 1974, the Maynard family moves into their dream house. It's a dream that quickly descends into a panic stricken nightmare as the family discovers a horrifying truth, a truth that will make the history books. The house is already occupied by the most violent poltergeist ever documented, a poltergeist that will tear you from your bed as you sleep and drag you helplessly into the darkness.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-31
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Sweet Sue
Overview: Sue is back on the dating scene. She meets a mysterious biker called Ron at her brother's funeral and sparks fly. But when Ron introduces her to her social media-influence son, Anthony, Sue finds herself in an increasingly surreal battle of wills with this ambitious teenager who, despite showing no signs of talent, is convinced his dance troupe 'Electric Destiny' is tipped for stardom. Will she find the purpose and imagination to bring this little unconventional family together for a chance of happiness?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-22
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The Colour Room
Overview: A pioneering ceramic artist Clarice Cliff rises to prominence in the 1920s while working in Britain’s Stoke-on-Trent pottery industry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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Hyena
Overview: Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-06
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Looks and Smiles
Overview: Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two weeks gets his check from the dole. There are no jobs. His best mate Alan joins the army to fix tanks and is sent to Belfast to quell Catholics. At a disco, Mick meets Karen, who works at a shoe shop and lives with her recently-separated mom. Karen misses her dad. She offers Mick emotional stability and a route to adulthood; Alan pitches the army. Does Mick have a future?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-09
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Overview: Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-28
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Overview: After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-28
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War Horse
Overview: On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
Genres: War History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-25
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Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
Overview: Schoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes, one of which impresses agent Wilfred De'ath through whom he gets a job on a pirate radio station, changing his name to Kenny Everett. Though sacked for annoying the sponsor his popularity sees him working on the BBC's newly-formed Radio One. Around this time he meets and marries Lee Middleton, who not only sticks by him through his career lows but is sympathetic when, following a drugs over-dose, he admits to being gay. She even helps him find a boyfriend though, unlike his friend Freddie Mercury, he is reluctant to come out. Following their divorce Kenny is best man when Lee marries actor John Alkin and, in 1985, in typically flamboyant style comes out, owing to having not one but two 'husbands'. However, in 1989 he is diagnosed as HIV+ and, in 1995, a year after winning the prestigious Sony award, dies of AIDS aged fifty.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-02
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Hillsborough
Overview: Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-11
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Away
Overview: A story set in the north English seaside town of Blackpool and centered on two kindred spirits who form an unlikely friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-22
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Funny Cow
Overview: A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Journeyman
Overview: A boxer suffers a serious head injury during a fight, and must deal with the consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-30
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Overview: A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-14
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Johnny Vegas: Who's Ready for Ice Cream?
Overview: Johnny Vegas has crawled his way to the top of the showbiz ladder. Fame, wealth and awards are his but there's a problem...he's lost his edge. He's no longer funny and the fans have begun to take notice... The solution? Return Vegas to his stand-up roots - The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. How? Kidnap Johnny and surround him with a mad lifestyle manager, a meglomaniac sponsor and his obsessive comic flatmate who should've been sectioned years ago. Then just sit back, watch his world fall apart and hope his new found misery means he can reclaim his place amongst stand-up comedy's finest with hilarious results! Succeed or fail, one question must be answered...Who's Ready For Ice Cream?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-17
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The Fix
Overview: The story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of matches. Prominent among those jailed and banned were the Sheffield Wednesday F.C. stars Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-04
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Rainy Day Women
Overview: In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-10
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Triple 9
Overview: A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-19
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Affection
Overview: Clumsy romantic Sunny is infatuated with glitzy but deadbeat, Francophile bingo-caller Pauline Dupondt and forgets the important things in life, like his 80 year old Grandmother Dot's birthday.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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On the Palm
Overview: Fledge needs a job. He'll take anything. And when Dawlish gives him strange errands to run, for cash in hand, strictly 'on the palm', it's a welcome change from the dole. Until he finds himself digging dirt on an old friend....
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-05
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